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The Subject Of Britain, 1603â€“25

by Christopher Ivic

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 This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England's throne, contested during the Anglo-Scottish Union debates. -- .
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The Business Of Birth Control - Contraception And Commerce In Britain Before The Sexual Revolution

by Claire L. Jones

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 This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill. -- .
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The Northern Ireland Peace Process - From Armed Conflict To Brexit

by Eamonn O'Kane

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 A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europeâ€™s longest running modern conflict. -- .
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Deirdre Madden - New Critical Perspectives

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 This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland. -- .
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Migration Diplomacy In The Middle East And North Africa - Power, Mobility, And The State

by Gerasimos Tsourapas

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 The first major examination of the interplay between migration and foreign policy in the Middle East, this study analyses how key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today, and shows how migrants, refugees and diasporas have been subject to power politics considerations across the Global South. -- .
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Local Government And Democracy In Britain

by J. Chandler e Neil Barnett

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 This book examines the crisis in UK local government, looking at how the system has changed throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and asking what lies ahead. -- .
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The Power Of Pragmatism - Knowledge Production And Social Inquiry

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 Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. -- .
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Surrealist Women'S Writing - A Critical Exploration

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 Featuring essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this book offers the first sustained critical inquiry into the multifaceted writing of women associated with surrealism, and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment. -- .
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The Supernatural In Early Modern Scotland

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 This book is a collection of chapters on supernatural belief and practice in Scotland between 1500 and 1800. It deals with elite culture â€" from political prophecy to astrology, theology and poetic visions. And it deals with popular culture â€" from trances and visionary encounters with ghosts and fairies, to folkloric angels and Second Sight. -- .
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Cowboy Hamlets And Zombie Romeos - Shakespeare In Genre Film

by Kinga Földváry

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 The book focuses on the interpretation of Shakespeare film adaptations in commercial film genres, from the classical Hollywood era to contemporary blockbuster cinema. Its genre-based analyses revisit old favourites and rediscover long-forgotten treasures of film history, taking adaptation studies in a new direction. -- .
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D. W. Griffith'S The Birth Of A Nation - Art, Culture And Ethics In Black And White

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 A volume of new chapters exploring the reputation, text and legacy of D. W. Griffithâ€™s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. In-depth textual analyses accompany reflections on Birthâ€™s profound impact on art and film into the twenty-first century, comprising a significant contribution to discourse on the most controversial film of all time. -- .
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Shakespeare, Memory, And Modern Irish Literature

by Nicholas Taylor-Collins

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 Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as â€˜dismemorialâ€™, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeareâ€™s England. -- .
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Rethinking The Carolingian Reforms

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 This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture comes into view. -- .
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Siblings And Sociology

by Katherine Davies

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 Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes. -- .
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Deirdre Madden - New Critical Perspectives

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 This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland. -- .
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Chinese Dreams In Romantic England - The Life And Times Of Thomas Manning

by Edward (Librarian) Weech

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 A polymath and participant in the 'first wave' of British Romanticism, Manning was one of the first Englishmen to study Chinese language and culture. His extraordinary story, told for the first time, transforms our understanding of Romanticism and the cultural exchange between Britain and Asia. -- .
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Frontier Narratives - Liminal Lives In The Early Modern Mediterranean

by Steven Hutchinson

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 This book uses a wide range of sources, factual and fictive, in many languages to examine how slaves and â€˜renegadesâ€™ developed a frontier consciousness that took into account how the â€˜othersâ€™ thought and acted, and how Muslims, Christians and Jews developed mutual understanding despite the hostile conditions of the early modern Mediterranean. -- .
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A Writer'S Guide To Ancient Rome

by Carey Fleiner

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 For writers of Roman historical fiction: a basic guide to family life, food & clothing, housing & travel, law & order, economics, religion, and entertainment. -- .
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Bad English - Literature, Multilingualism, And The Politics Of Language In Contemporary Britain

by Rachael Gilmour

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 Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and conditions of linguistic belonging. -- .
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Memory And The Future Of Europe - Rupture And Integration In The Wake Of Total War

by Peter J. Verovsek

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 This book examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union. It traces Europeâ€™s political, economic and financial crisis to the loss of these memories of the rupture of 1945. In order to survive the EU will have to prove that it can act effectively in the face of future challenges. -- .
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Life History And The Irish Migrant Experience In Post-War England - Myth, Memory And Emotional Adaption

by Barry Hazley

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 This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrantsâ€™ â€˜recomposeâ€™ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration -- .
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Ultras - The Passion And Performance Of Contemporary Football Fandom

by Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski e Svenja-Maria Mintert

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 Ultras are the most prominent form of football fandom in the 21st century, from their origins in Italy in the 1960s, this style of fandom has spread across Europe and then across the globe. This book provides the first European-wide monograph on the ultras phenomenon. -- .
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Uncertain Citizenship - Life In The Waiting Room

by Anne-Marie Fortier

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 This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of â€˜citizenisationâ€™ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of citizenship. -- .
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Displacement - Global Conversations On Refuge

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 This book aims to develop global conversations around refuge. Through an interdisciplinary, transnational and historical set of chapters, the authors develop new theoretical frameworks for scholars working on the forced displacement of people around the world, including refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons and others. -- .
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